Is this inspired by https://www.preethamrn.com/posts/when-should-you-give-up?
Explore interesting places nearby listed on Wikipedia
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#22Curious where they're getting their data because I've never seen Toronto on an address line as: Toronto, Golden Horseshoe, Ontario, Canada. I think maybe it's potentially correct, but I've never seen that before in my life.
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#23So this must only work in urban/metro areas. In my rural area, it's just a map of incorporated townships, and I know there are historical things in this area that are on wikipedia.
From what I can tell, it includes any article that has been tagged with coordinates:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Geograph...
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#24I once made a smartwatch interface for Wikipedia [1] and was intending on making it geolocate and tell you about interesting things you walk past.
However I stopped working an the project when (a) my project wouldn’t compile in the latest Android Studio without cutting and pasting every Java class, there was no auto-upgrade path that succeeded in compiling (b) Google EOL’d the search API I was using (c) every few months they wanted me to take some action to keep my app in the Play store and I got fed up with being asked to do unpaid work
[1] https://www.pcmag.com/news/attopedia-for-android-wear-puts-t...
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#25Love it.
One comment: I wish it didn't zoom in when I click a map pin. I prefer the map to stay in the same position.
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#26This is awesome! I currently live in a nondescript suburb of Los Angeles(Woodland Hills) and I’m always looking for interesting things to do in my area. This fits the bill exactly. Also really liked the animation of the map when I typed in my area. Cool idea and great execution.
You could also look at https://wikishootme.toolforge.org/ which shows nearby places that need photos uploaded
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#27This has been a feature in the Wikipedia mobile app for some time. It’s a real gem, I’ve found out some really interesting things about landmarks I pass every day.
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#28This is awesome. Well implemented. I just learnt something new about the area I'm living in.
When I road tripped across US & CA the atlasabscura was my go-to for finding weird and wonderful places to explore. It had a great mix of historic, weird, artistic, irrelevant and timeless.
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#29I would love if it didn’t auto zoom in whenever I click one. What an annoying feature.
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#30Ok but they seriously need to not zoom in on every site you click on.